On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Sundeep Jogoo <s.jogoo_at_mdx.ac.mu> wrote:
> I would like to add on this one. This is a major issue for all academic
> institutions in Mauritius. Colleagues from abroad find it ridiculous that
> the pricing for dedicated lines are that expensive. On top of that, there is
> no such thing which exist as educational pricing, compared to other
> countries.
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> Universities, using adsl lines, but this does not come with static ip
> addressing. In the end, we are just having the same service as a home user,
> except that the price is almost doubled for business. Now that MT have
> started putting Fiber, but they still haven’t grasp the technologies behind
> it and what infrastructure is needed. On top of that the service we, as
> educational institutions are paying, are not up to the standard.
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> In a way, if a business is paying a huge amount of money for internet
> connection-adsl/dedicated lines, we expect to have a minimum standard of
> bandwidth allocation.
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> If the Govt wants to have a knowledge hub (well the previous govt was
> stressing on that), they should start thinking how other countries are doing
> and I agree with the point “Exchange points for education”
>
I went to morocco, and I was given a tour of a university premise. I
was quite surprised how well the Exchange points for educational
institutions was built.
In a country which advertises itself as an tourist country, I was
getting 10Mbit/s in a classroom.
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> Sundeep
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> From: mauritius-internet-users-bounce_at_lists.elandnews.com
> [mailto:mauritius-internet-users-bounce_at_lists.elandnews.com] On Behalf Of
> Rossan Mousaffar
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:17 AM
> To: Loganaden Velvindron; mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> Subject: RE: Broken Internet for school, all financed by our money
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> Hola logan hehe tkt modi has give mauritius 500 millions $ hope that money
> help.
> Nites
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
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> ________________________________
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> From: Loganaden Velvindron
> Sent: 3/16/2015 3:55 PM
> To: mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> Subject: Broken Internet for school, all financed by our money
>
> Dear All,
>
> Back when I was a student in high school, we went through the
> conversion of our Internet Connection to the Government's IT Internet.
>
> Back when I was a student, we realised that it was more about
> political motivation than technical motivation.
>
> -Porn sites were blocked.
> (You could work your way around, with a very clever tricks).
>
> -Inability to get DHCP on Linux machines. The was a problem with their
> DHCP server. (I'm not sure if it's fixed now)
>
> -Crippled internet.
>
> No access to CVS, SVN, git protocol (git://...), and services like IMs.
>
> Let me try to explain it, you could still connect to IM, but then, it
> would try to do that through some proxy, which made your messages slow
> to travel.
>
> College Du St Esprit, at my urging, moved back to a standard ADSL line
> to provide a better learning environment.
>
> I don't believe that the school IT project favours growth of high
> school student who are limited to educational websites. Students need
> to get their hands dirty. Downloading code, through SCM, forwarding
> port to their machines, and allow others to test their webservers.
> Back then, it played a huge part in knowing how networking works in
> practice.
>
> Here is what I think would have really helped (and a better investment
> of taxpayer's money).
>
> -Subsidised Internet Connection to schools in Mauritius, allowing more
> schools to get internet via ADSL, and get static IPs.
>
> -Setting up an educational peering exchange points for Educational
> environments.
>
> -Wide coverage of wifi on the school compounds. This would have solved
> the internet-to-tablet problem.
>
> Kind regards,
> //Logan
> C-x-C-c
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Received on Tue Mar 17 2015 - 07:16:43 PST